My chat on Party does not work -- anyone else have this happen?

[teddyFBI]

When I type in the chat field, my chat simply does not appear in the chatbox (even tho I def have chat enabled b/c I can read what other people are typing.)

I emailed my VIP host who looked into it and told me that my chat definitely had NOT been banned, so he didn't know why it wasn't working for me. Note that I've tried it on both my laptop and desktop, and it's not working on either one (which suggests that it's some sort of global account setting rather than just the software installed on an individual computer.)

I used to be able to chat just fine. But it's been busted as described above for around 6 weeks.

Anyone else have this happen to them, or know how to fix it?